Right-Wing Media Once Again Tries to Take Down Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Fails

One of the more delightful things about the sudden political rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is how completely flummoxed right-wing media is about how to deal with her. Granted, sources like Fox News and The Daily Caller aren't used to covering politicians to the left of Reagan who have a cohesive worldview and concrete policies, so they don't know how to cover figures like Ocasio-Cortez or Rashida Tlaib without making them look even better. But what's amazing is just how badly critics on the right are scrounging for a way to slime Ocasio-Cortez in particular.

So far, her alleged gaffes include things like worrying about rent and owning a coat. She even grew up in a modestly-sized house despite identifying as a socialist! The newest thing isn't any less dumb than the rest of that. Right-wing Twitter has been obsessing over Ocasio-Cortez's high school yearbook photos and clips of her dancing in a video made when she was in college.

They're both nonsense fixations since Ocasio-Cortez hasn't made any secrets about where she went to school (the info is literally on her Wikipedia page), and the video is... honestly, it's not clear what's supposed to be damning about it? It is however exceptionally creepy that the adults writing and tweeting about this are worked into a frothy mess over high school pics.

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